People
Current PAMW Students
NATASHA BERSHADSKY. BA (Psychology and Linguistics), University of Jerusalem, 1998. MA (Classical Civilizations), Harvard, 2003. Interests: Homeric and Hesiodic traditions; oral poetry; relation between local and pan-Hellenic; connections between literature and ritual, art and ritual, art and literature; Proto-Indo-European poetics; Northwest Semitic and Anatolian languages and cultures.
ARI BRYEN. BA (Classics and History), University of Maryland, 2001. MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2003. Interests: Anthropology of violence and revenge; papyrology; Late Antique Near East.
WILLIAM S. BUBELIS. BA (Greek, History, and Latin), University of Washington, 1998. MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 1999. Research Interests: the social and economic history of Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean, from the Geometric to the Hellenistic period. Dissertation: “The Sacred Treasurers of Athens, 700-300 B.C.” Publications: “Geometric burial uncovered at Corinth,” Akoue 50 (2003), 4; “An overstruck stater of the Cypriot kingdom of Salamis,” American Journal of Numismatics 16-17 (2005-06), 1-5, p. 1. Most Recent Papers: “Accounting for Tradition: Sacred Treasurers in Homer and The Early Athenian Polis,” Ancient Societies Workshop, 2005; “The Hero Klakophoros: Responses to Democratic Accountability in the Hellenistic Peloponnese,” APA Annual Meeting, Boston, January 2005; “Sparta and Sacred Wealth in the Peloponnesian War,” Ancient Societies Workshop, University of Chicago, 2006.
ZOE EISENMAN. BA (Greek), Vassar College, 1985. MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 1989. Interests: Greek and Roman history; social history; philosophy; religion; mythology; gender studies. Dissertation: "The Symbolism of Hair in Ancient Greece and Rome."
PAUL KEEN. BA (Classics and Greek), Franklin & Marshall College, 2002. MA (Ancient History), University of London, 2003. Interests: Greek economic history; epigraphy; literacy; Greek law.
THOMAS KEITH. BA (Classics, History, and Mathematics), University of Texas at Austin, 2004; MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2005. Research Interests: religion in the Greek polis; Aegean Greece in the Hellenistic period, especially Hellenistic Athens; ancient historiography.
TIMOTHY MCGOVERN. BA (Classics and History), University of Chicago, 1999. MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2000. Interests: Hellenistic Judaism; notions and representations of time, the past, and the future in antiquity.
JUSTIN MANSFIELD. BA (Classical Languages), Macalester College, 1996. Interests: linguistics; Egypt and the Classical world.
JACOBO MYERSTON. MA (Greek Philology and Religious Studies), Tübingen, 2000. Interests: Greek philosophy and drama; Akkadian epic and divination; culture contacts; sociology of knowledge; literature and religion; computational linguistics and social simulation. Publications: "Introducción a la lingüística computacional con una perspectiva interdisciplinaria. Terminometro. Ed. Unión Latina," Número. 6 (2002).
MEGAN NUTZMAN. BA (History), Hillsdale College, 1999. MTS (Theological Studies), Holy Cross School of Theology, 2003. ThM (Theology), Holy Cross Schol of Theology, 2005. Interests: early Christianity; Second Temple and rabbinic Judaism; religious art and architecture; pilgrimage; ritual; women in ancient religion.
PHILIP VENTICINQUE. BA (Classical Languages and Literatures), University of Chicago, 2001. MA (Ancient Mediterranean World), University of Chicago, 2002. Interests: history, religion, and literature of Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt; Coptic literature and sources; papyrology; early Christianity; imperial cult; law and society; historiography. Most recent papers: “Guilds in the Economy and Society of Roman Egypt,” Ancient Societies Workshop, University of Chicago, June 2006; “What’s in a Name?: Greek, Egyptian and Biblical traditions in the Cambyses Romance,” APA, Montreal, 2006; Late Antique and Byzantine Studies/Ancient Societies Workshop, University of Chicago, March 2006.
JANG WON YI. BA (Ancient History), Korea University, 1994. MA (Ancient History), Korea University, 1996. Interests: the political and cultural history of Greece; Greek mythology; cultural exchange in the west and east; the Athenian claim to autochthony in relation to Sparta.